adj, noun ·5 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
2. 2
   An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church. historical
3. 3
   someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead wordnet
4. 4
   One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
5. 5
   One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.

Adjective

1. 1
   Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
2. 2
   Pertaining to the Spiritualists. historical, not-comparable

Adjective

1. 1
   of or relating to or connected with spiritualism wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

mediummediumspiritistanimistautomatistberkeleian

Example

More examples

"Many prominent bourgeois philosophers in England are members of spiritualist and theosophical societies."

Etymology

From spiritual + -ist.

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